Fiction Writing Essential Skills

Course details

The Fiction Writing Course mainly focuses on helping you to become a good fiction writer and guiding you on how to write books, short stories, plays, and novels through explaining some fiction writing tips revealed by professional fiction writers.

In this online fiction writing course, you will learn from the very basics of writing and keeping a journal to developing your ideas, writing and editing your own concepts, learning different approaches to research for creating characters and events.

On completion of the course, you will have gained fiction writing skills and become knowledgeable about story elements that give ideas on subjects to use for your stories or books and eventually develop your own, unique writing styles.

Who is this Course for?

If you are enthusiastic about becoming a fiction writer or science fiction writer and learning how to conduct research for obtaining factual information and authentic detail, you will surely benefit from this course.

Entry Requirement:

• This course is available to all learners, of all academic backgrounds.
• Learners should be aged 16 or over to undertake the qualification.
• A good understanding of the English language, numeracy, and ICT are required to attend this course.

Method of Assessment:

Upon completion of the course, you will be required to sit for an online multiple-choice quiz-based assessment, which will determine whether you have passed the course (60% pass mark). The test will be marked immediately and results will be published instantly.

CPD Certificate from Course Gate 

At the successful completion of the course, you can obtain your CPD certificate from us. You can order the PDF certificate and the hard copy. Also, you can order both PDF and hardcopy certificates.

Career path

Writing is an extended and diverse professional field, and professional writers are broadly employed in different industries with a lucrative salaries, ranging from academia to business, and media/journalism to entertainment. Completing the course will offer you a recognized qualification and support you with multiple ways to break into the industry and start a writing career.


COURSE CURRICULUM

Fiction Writing Course

Module 1 Part 1 – Getting Ideas and How to Develop Them
Module 1 Part 2 – Inspiration and Finding The Time
Module 2 – What It Means To Be A Writer 
Module 3 – Characters
Module 4 – Plotting and Story Construction
Module 5 – Theme, Templates & Outlining
Module 6 – Show Don’t Tell
Module 7 – Punctuation, Grammar, and some Basic Writing Rules
Module 8 – Scene Structure, Exposition, and Story Rules 
Module 9 – Chapter Structure, Vision, and Focus
Module 10 – Fast Writing Without Fear or Censure 
Module 11 – Editing, Re-writing & Polishing
Module 12 – Finishing, Submission & Publication


  Updated on 04 August, 2021